What I’ve been up to – Update for March 2014!

What I’ve been up to this past month: It was my birthday yaaaay!

Just to recap, this is what happened last month: Due to a 3 course Valentine’s dinner at a restaurant and several birthday celebrations I totally blew the diet (I actually ate desserts with “real sugar” in them, on more than one occasion, uh-oh!)

So on my birthday I naturally also ate cake and even had a glass of wine, as you do, haha…!

In between all of that I felt not so good and tried to undo the damage that I had done by indulging in all the sweet stuff.

 What I typically ate this month:

Breakfast:

• ground brown rice pudding/ gluten free oatmeal porridge or gf free bread with my Healing Cabbage stir fry and cucumber (don’t crinkle your nose – it’s actually tasty!)

 Lunch & Dinner:

• Broth, gluten free Rice/ Oatmeal bread with Prosciutto and 2 soft boiled eggs or sardines and cooked Savoy with butter and salt

 What I snacked on:

• gluten free bread with flax oil and onion salt (too much bread, too many carbs…. I know, I know….)

• Not to forget the German cheese cake on my birthday

Tons of sour cream, butter, Spelt flour, raisins, xylitol and coconut sugar went into it. I played with this recipe.

cheese cake made with Stevia and Xylitol instead of sugar

How I felt:

• Felt stressed and even overwhelmed at times (too much work – too little play).
• I could deal with having to go through another round of Candida treatment (I’ve been there a hundred times).
• But what I couldn’t deal with was the bloating (I looked 3 months pregnant, really painful too!)
• and this dreaded sinus headache came back, I even had a temperature on two nights
  
• not to mention the emotional dip I went through (How bad is it? – Is this a total relapse? – Will I have to start at square one again?… I was full of unsettling feelings of worry, guilt and fear).  Thankfully all the symptoms disappeared once I started taking the stronger probiotics twice a day (for comparison: last month I took these slightly less potent probiotics and only once a day).

 What supplements I took:

• I’m still taking several things for healing leaky gut. Gelatin, L-glutamin – all very soothing to the tummy, but sadly also pricy.

• Was rotating oil of oregano and olive leaf capsules for almost three weeks to get a handle on the new symptoms.

• Back to taking the strongest probiotics I know (CP1 probiotics), twice per day. Other than that, the usual multi vit, Vit C, magnesium, chlorella, barley grass powder and Evening Primrose and Fish oil capsules.

• Have started taking Swedish Bitters again after late meals in the evening and also massaging magnesium oil into my feet in the evening to help prevent muscle cramps which I have had a few nights recently – very effective.

To Recap What I learned and How that applies to you:

• Stress is THE killer. You have to take time out to relax to put your body into healing mode.

• For that you also need an alkaline environment in your body – so eat your dinner early (no salad and hard to digest vegetables after 6pm to prevent fermentation in your gut). And avoid deeply fried and very greasy food. Even tons of coconut oil and smoked oily fish are a no-no. Lightly grilled chicken with some veggies for instance is a good option.

• Risking a relapse by drinking wine or eating cake with added sugar is totally not worth the excruciating healing reaction you have to go through afterwards. I can count the days when I enjoyed something outside the scope of the diet on one hand, yet I had to deal with the consequences for over two weeks! Nah, I’ve had enough!

Be wise – learn from my mistakes – stick with the diet until you’re 100% Candida symptom free and then some.

Don’t settle for maintenance level, having to watch what you eat all your life. Most Candida sufferers do. It doesn’t have to be you though.

Stick to the diet. Do it properly, and you’ll see amazing results. You can bet that I am going to be strict with my diet from now on – none of this halfheartedness.

You can do it

If you’d like to read some of my other Candida Diet Updates to see how certain things affected my recovery then you can view them all at one glance here or just go to last month’s update where I shared some of my Valentine’s snaps with you

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